in our house when a "secret santa" exchange calls for a handmade gift the first thing i think of is knitting. my ten year old bella, apparently, is no exception. when told that she needed to supply her fellow girl scout with a gift at the christmas parth, she first decided that she would knit a head band. when she cast on too many stitches we called it a scarf.
bella modeling her "secret santa" scarf
now, what i didn't know is that bella is only a fast knitter when she wants to be a fast knitter. this scarf, by the time she got around to knitting it, was to be given in a little under 48 hours. she knit, and knit, and knit, and knit (and watched a little spongebob on dvd) and then she knit some more. after three hours on sunday nite, she only had two thirds of the scarf done.
what's a mother to do?
i knit the rest of it for her.
is that cheating? maybe. however, she decided on the yarn, cast on, knit like a whirling dervish, decided on the length, and bound off. i would say that is close enough.
didn't she do a good job (with a little help from mom!)?
pink and white self striping cotton
from sugar and cream
detail of scarf
(the dark pink is the side she knit most of)
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